Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Albright, who is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will present the lecture series:Comparative Arts: Theory and Practice“The Purposes of Literature: Remembering, Forgetting, Pounding into Shape” on Monday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m.;

“Music’s Origin, Music’s End” on Wednesday, October 3, at 6 p.m.;

“Painting as Music: The Art of Counterpoint” on Thursday, October 4, at 4:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public, all lectures take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.

Albright will deliver an additional lecture, “White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts,” on Tuesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City. Tickets for this event are $15 for nonmembers and $10 for Morgan members and Bard College affiliates. Please visit www.themorgan.org/public or call 212-685-0008, ext. 560, for more information or to purchase tickets.

Speakers Series: Hito Steyerl

Monday, October 1, 20125:30–7 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room Steyerl will talk about recent projects.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. She teaches artistic media practice at the University of Arts Berlin. Her latest works include: The Kiss 2012, Adorno's Grey 2012, The Body of the Image 2012 (performance), Abstract 2012, Guards 2012 as well as the lectures Probable Title: Zero Probability (2012) with Rabih Mrou and I dreamed a dream (2012). Her newest publication is: The Wretched of the Screen, a collection of essays (2012).

In her works, Hito reflects upon the role of travelling images, those images, that crowd the realms of suburbs and the lowlands of the web. Images that change their meaning, outlook, framing, caption and often also their protagonists by traveling through time and space. She put some interesting questions like: Which role do digital modes of communication play in creating new political and aesthetical articulations? How do they accelerate, slow down or modify conflict, civil war and the writing of history? How are media and video or audio tapes, jpegs or posters implicated in violence? How does the struggle over copyright and reproduction- over making things seen and heard - factor into these considerations? And is a withdrawal from representation perhaps a new form of strike or refusal?(Rabih Mrou).

Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Human Rights Project Lecture Series: Breaking the Silence

Monday, October 1, 20127 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomEvent co-sponsored by J Street U

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the beginning of the Second Intifada and who have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. Breaking the Silence endeavors to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that popu

lation’s everyday life.

Avichai Sharon, Yehuda Shaul and Noam Chayut, a group of soldiers who had served in Hebron, founded the organization in March of 2004. The organization began with a photo exhibit accompanied by written testimonies from soldiers. Since it's establishment it has acquired a unique role in expressing the voices of soldiers to the Israeli media and public. The organization has collected more than 700 testimonies from soldiers who represent a wide range of Israeli society and cover nearly all units that operate in the territories. They additionally lead trips for the Israeli public to Hebron one of the most active and contested areas of settlements.

Lecture by Barbara Hahn

Monday, October 1, 20127 pm

Olin, Room 102Professor Barbara Hahn is one of the most distinguished literary scholars in the U.S. She has published works on Hannah Arendt, German Romanticism, Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish relations, and Studies on Women in Culture. Hahn is also the editor-in-chief of Rahel Levin Varnhagen's "Complete Works", a critical-historical edition.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen is regarded as one of the core intellectuals at the turn of the 19th century. Her Salon in Berlin was frequented by such luminaries as Goethe, Heine, and the Humboldt brothers, to name a few. Varnhagen's stunningly sharp and delicate reflections on her time were mostly written in letters to her friends. Thanks to Barbara Hahn, this treasure has been preserved and will be presented at Bard College based on Varnhagen's masterpiece "A Book of Remembrance for Her Friends." Professor Hahn's groundbreaking six volume edition of this book received the highest honors in Germany and beyond, including the Times Literary Supplement.

Musica Elettronica Viva

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 – Thursday, October 4, 2012

Olin Hall

Between October 2nd and 4th the pioneering electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) will be in residence at Bard College. Founded in Rome, Italy in the mid-sixties, mostly by Americans living there then, MEV has since performed several hundred concerts throughout western Europe and North America. The current and founding members are Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, who are each noted for their own musical accomplishments as well.

On Tuesday Oct 2 from 6:40-8:30 pm there will be an informal concert of piano music by Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Blair MacMillen and his students. The program will be included "Winnsboro Cottonmill Blues" etc. at Blum Hall.

On Wednesday October 3 at 6:30 a "Talk with MEV" will be held, moderated by Marina Rosenfeld, in Blum Hall.

On Thursday October 4th they will present a concert in Olin Auditorium at 8 PM.

Meet the BardMAT

Tuesday, October 2, 20125 pm

MAT BuildingInterested in teaching? Learn more! Meet faculty, administration, alumni/ae and mentor teachers from Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program. Learn about program offerings, application information, and deadlines. This event will be held at the MAT Offices in Red Hook (7401 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571) shuttle transportation from Bard will be provided. RSVP mat@bard.edu or 845-758-7151.Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

A Lecture by Zephyr Teachout

Tuesday, October 2, 20127 pm

Olin, Room 102Professor Teachout is a professor of law at Fordham University. Her background is in laws governing political behavior domestically and abroad. She is a specialist on corruption and its constitutional history. She received her BA from Yale, her MA from Duke in political science and her JD, summa cum laude, from Duke Law School. Before working as a professor at Fordham, she worked at Duke University and University of Vermont. She

was the national director of the Sunlight Foundation an organization working to make government more transparent through Internet resources. Professor Teachout also co-founded the Fair Trial Initiative, which provides resources to attorneys working on death penalty cases. She has worked as a political consultant to nonprofits, political campaigns and citizen journalism organizations. For Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, she directed Internet organizing. More recently she worked at America Coming Together, Current TV and was a fellow at the Berkman Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke Law School.

Musica Elettronica Viva

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 – Thursday, October 4, 2012

Olin Hall

Between October 2nd and 4th the pioneering electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) will be in residence at Bard College. Founded in Rome, Italy in the mid-sixties, mostly by Americans living there then, MEV has since performed several hundred concerts throughout western Europe and North America. The current and founding members are Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, who are each noted for their own musical accomplishments as well.

On Tuesday Oct 2 from 6:40-8:30 pm there will be an informal concert of piano music by Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Blair MacMillen and his students. The program will be included "Winnsboro Cottonmill Blues" etc. at Blum Hall.

On Wednesday October 3 at 6:30 a "Talk with MEV" will be held, moderated by Marina Rosenfeld, in Blum Hall.

On Thursday October 4th they will present a concert in Olin Auditorium at 8 PM.

National Climate Seminar: KC Golden

Wednesday, October 3, 201212 pm

Join us at noon via conference call for the National Climate Seminar with KC Golden, Policy Director at Climate Solutions talking about coal exports and the first rule for winning the climate game: “Don’t lose.”

Albright, who is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will present the lecture series:

Comparative Arts: Theory and Practice“The Purposes of Literature: Remembering, Forgetting, Pounding into Shape” on Monday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m.;

“Music’s Origin, Music’s End” on Wednesday, October 3, at 6 p.m.;

“Painting as Music: The Art of Counterpoint” on Thursday, October 4, at 4:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public, all lectures take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.

Albright will deliver an additional lecture, “White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts,” on Tuesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City. Tickets for this event are $15 for nonmembers and $10 for Morgan members and Bard College affiliates. Please visit www.themorgan.org/public or call 212-685-0008, ext. 560, for more information or to purchase tickets.

Musica Elettronica Viva

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 – Thursday, October 4, 2012

Olin Hall

Between October 2nd and 4th the pioneering electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) will be in residence at Bard College. Founded in Rome, Italy in the mid-sixties, mostly by Americans living there then, MEV has since performed several hundred concerts throughout western Europe and North America. The current and founding members are Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, who are each noted for their own musical accomplishments as well.

On Tuesday Oct 2 from 6:40-8:30 pm there will be an informal concert of piano music by Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Blair MacMillen and his students. The program will be included "Winnsboro Cottonmill Blues" etc. at Blum Hall.

On Wednesday October 3 at 6:30 a "Talk with MEV" will be held, moderated by Marina Rosenfeld, in Blum Hall.

On Thursday October 4th they will present a concert in Olin Auditorium at 8 PM.

Albright, who is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, will present the lecture series:

Comparative Arts: Theory and Practice“The Purposes of Literature: Remembering, Forgetting, Pounding into Shape” on Monday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m.;

“Music’s Origin, Music’s End” on Wednesday, October 3, at 6 p.m.;

“Painting as Music: The Art of Counterpoint” on Thursday, October 4, at 4:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public, all lectures take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.

Albright will deliver an additional lecture, “White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts,” on Tuesday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m. at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City. Tickets for this event are $15 for nonmembers and $10 for Morgan members and Bard College affiliates. Please visit www.themorgan.org/public or call 212-685-0008, ext. 560, for more information or to purchase tickets.

Prophecy: The Written Testimony

Friday, October 5, 201212:30–1:30 pm

St. John the EvangelistThe Institute of Advanced Theology (IAT) will be sponsoring its Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "Prophecy: the written testimony" beginning on Friday October 5 and will continue on each Friday in October and November 2nd.

Prophets claim to link the world of human beings with divine reality. Their methods have included recourse topoetry, vision, music, and ritual. Prophecy ahs typically been seen as an undocumented activity, either too remote in time or too marginal to be fully recorded. Yet the Hebrew Bible provides direct evidence - reaching back to the eighth century B.C.E. - of what the prophetic process and prophetic communication involve.

We will meet at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, NY. At noon lunch will be available for IAT members at a charge of $10.00 and non-members $13.00. Reservations for lunch are necessary by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mail iat@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

American Ballet Theatre

Friday, October 5, 20128 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

Recognized as one of the premier dance companies in the world, American Ballet Theatre brings the highest quality dance and dancers to audiences across the globe. Celebrating its role as America’s National Ballet Company®, ABT tours nationally and internationally, performing for more than 400,000 people annually.

Since its founding in 1940, ABT developed a repertoire under the direction of Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith that honored the past while encouraging the development of the art form through the creation of new works. Classics from the 19th century such as Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty live side by side with seminal works of the early 20th century such as Apollo, Les Sylphides,Jardin aux Lilas, and Rodeo, as well as such contemporary masterpieces as Push Comes to Shove and Airs. ABT has commissioned works by the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Under the artistic direction of former ABT Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie, the Company remains steadfast in its vision as “American” and continues to bring the art of dance theater to the great stages of the world.

Program includes:

Antony TudorThe Leaves Are Fading

José LimónThe Moor’s Pavane

Twyla TharpIn the Upper Room

These performances have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

Running time for this performance is two-and-a-half hours, with two 20-minute intermissions.

Pianist Aron Kallay and Soprano Martha Herr

In a program of mostly microtonal works by Kyle Gann, Tom Flaherty, Vera Ivanova, Isaac Schankler, John Schneider, and Brian Shepard

Friday, October 5, 20128 pm

Blum Music building - Blum HallProgram:Gann: Every Something Is an Echo of Nothing, New Aunts, Fugitive Objects, and the world premiere of Scenario for voice and soundfileFlaherty: Barstow BagatelleIvanova: Mbira or In Cage with AdamsSchankler: Alien Warp EtudeSchneider: LamentShepard: All the Pretty Colors of the Rainbow

Aron Kallay concentrates on the piano as a MIDI instrument, widely expanding the keyboard’s potentials in especially the area of microtonality. An award-winning solo and chamber musician, he has performed throughout the United States, as well as in the Czech Republic and Ukraine. His performances have been heard internationally on the radio shows Music From Carnegie Mellon and The Global Village. He has also been broadcast live over the internet from the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the California Institute of the Arts. Kallay is a champion of contemporary composers, microtonal music, and music that combines electronics with acoustic instruments. As such, he is dedicated to expanding the repertoire by commissioning new works that challenge the idea of what it means to be a pianist in the 21st century.

Matha Herr has performed throughout Brazil, the United States and Europe as a soloist and as a member of contemporary Brazilian ensembles such as Rio Cello Ensemble, Masters Singers of Sao Paulo, and the New Horizon Group. She is Professor of Singing at the Art Institute of Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and has acted as regent of the State Choir of St. Paul's Choir and English Culture in the same city. Devoted to contemporary music, she has premiered more than 70 works, including John Cage’s Europera V in 1991. Her recordings include a CD of songs by Virgil Thomson and Europera V, various Brazilian music recordings and studio recordings by more than a dozen radio and television networks in Brazil and Europe. Sponsored by: Music Program.

American Ballet Theatre

Saturday, October 6, 20122 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

Recognized as one of the premier dance companies in the world, American Ballet Theatre brings the highest quality dance and dancers to audiences across the globe. Celebrating its role as America’s National Ballet Company®, ABT tours nationally and internationally, performing for more than 400,000 people annually.

Since its founding in 1940, ABT developed a repertoire under the direction of Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith that honored the past while encouraging the development of the art form through the creation of new works. Classics from the 19th century such as Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty live side by side with seminal works of the early 20th century such as Apollo, Les Sylphides,Jardin aux Lilas, and Rodeo, as well as such contemporary masterpieces as Push Comes to Shove and Airs. ABT has commissioned works by the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Under the artistic direction of former ABT Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie, the Company remains steadfast in its vision as “American” and continues to bring the art of dance theater to the great stages of the world.

Program includes:

Antony TudorThe Leaves Are Fading

José LimónThe Moor’s Pavane

Twyla TharpIn the Upper Room

These performances have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

Running time for this performance is two-and-a-half hours, with two 20-minute intermissions.

American Ballet Theatre

Saturday, October 6, 20128 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

Recognized as one of the premier dance companies in the world, American Ballet Theatre brings the highest quality dance and dancers to audiences across the globe. Celebrating its role as America’s National Ballet Company®, ABT tours nationally and internationally, performing for more than 400,000 people annually.

Since its founding in 1940, ABT developed a repertoire under the direction of Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith that honored the past while encouraging the development of the art form through the creation of new works. Classics from the 19th century such as Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty live side by side with seminal works of the early 20th century such as Apollo, Les Sylphides,Jardin aux Lilas, and Rodeo, as well as such contemporary masterpieces as Push Comes to Shove and Airs. ABT has commissioned works by the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Under the artistic direction of former ABT Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie, the Company remains steadfast in its vision as “American” and continues to bring the art of dance theater to the great stages of the world.

Program includes:

Antony TudorThe Leaves Are Fading

José LimónThe Moor’s Pavane

Twyla TharpIn the Upper Room

These performances have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

Running time for this performance is two-and-a-half hours, with two 20-minute intermissions.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, October 7, 201212–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

American Ballet Theatre

Sunday, October 7, 20122 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Tickets: $20, 30, 40, 50

Recognized as one of the premier dance companies in the world, American Ballet Theatre brings the highest quality dance and dancers to audiences across the globe. Celebrating its role as America’s National Ballet Company®, ABT tours nationally and internationally, performing for more than 400,000 people annually.

Since its founding in 1940, ABT developed a repertoire under the direction of Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith that honored the past while encouraging the development of the art form through the creation of new works. Classics from the 19th century such as Swan Lake, Giselle, and The Sleeping Beauty live side by side with seminal works of the early 20th century such as Apollo, Les Sylphides,Jardin aux Lilas, and Rodeo, as well as such contemporary masterpieces as Push Comes to Shove and Airs. ABT has commissioned works by the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Under the artistic direction of former ABT Principal Dancer Kevin McKenzie, the Company remains steadfast in its vision as “American” and continues to bring the art of dance theater to the great stages of the world.

Program includes:

Antony TudorThe Leaves Are Fading

José LimónThe Moor’s Pavane

Twyla TharpIn the Upper Room

These performances have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

Running time for this performance is two-and-a-half hours, with two 20-minute intermissions.

Evensong Service

Sunday, October 7, 20127–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

Fall Open House for Prospective Students

Monday, October 8, 20128:30 am – 5 pm

Online registration for Fall Open House on October 8th is now closed. Prospective students and their families can still come to the event. Check-in is from 8:30 - 10:00 on Monday, October 8th at the Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation. Contact the Office of Admission at 845-758-7472 with questions.

German Jewish Exile and the German Archive of Literature

Thursday, October 11, 20125–7:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

The experience of exile influences and changes the understanding of history in those who suffer it. This topic has become an essential theme in the study of European and American Intellectual History of the 20th Century. One crucial example are German Jewish scholars who, in the writing their main scholarly works, also reflect on the experience of being expelled from their native culture. This colloquium focuses on the philosopher Karl Löwith (1897–1973) and the philologist Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) who came to America during and after World War II. It will draw on recently transcribed diaries, as well as on their published work, written during the time of exile in Japan and Turkey.

Matthias Bormuth is Heisenberg-Professor for Comparative Intellectual History at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He taught European Intellectual History at Columbia University (2011) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2009/10). Books in English are: Life-Conduct in Modern Times. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis (Springer 2006) and "Truth is what connects us". Philosophy, Art und Illnes in the Works of Karl Jaspers (edited volume, Hauschild 2008).

Dr. Ulrich von Bülow studied German Literature and Linguistics at the Karl Marx University, Leipzig. Since 1992 He joined the German Literature Archive, Marbach, in 1992, and has served as Head of the Archive Department since 2006. Bülow wrote books and essays about Franz Führmann, Arthur Schnitzler, W. G. Sebald, Peter Handke, and others. He is the editor of texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Erich Kästner, Karl Löwith, Martin Heidegger, and Joachim Ritter.

Dr. Jan Bürger studied German Literature and Political Sciences in Hamburg and worked in Berlin for the journal "Literaturen", before he joined the German Literature Archive Marbach in 2002, where he heads the archives of the Suhrkamp Verlag since 2009. Bürger published Books about Hans Henny Jahnn (2003), Gottfried Benn (2006) an Max Frisch (2011) and edited letters and works by Hans Henny Jahnn, Ernst Kreuder, Jörg Fauser, Hilde Domin, Paul Celan and others.

Prophecy: The Written Testimony

Friday, October 12, 201212:30–1:30 pm

St. John the EvangelistThe Institute of Advanced Theology (IAT) will be sponsoring its Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "Prophecy: the written testimony" beginning on Friday October 5 and will continue on each Friday in October and November 2nd.

Prophets claim to link the world of human beings with divine reality. Their methods have included recourse topoetry, vision, music, and ritual. Prophecy ahs typically been seen as an undocumented activity, either too remote in time or too marginal to be fully recorded. Yet the Hebrew Bible provides direct evidence - reaching back to the eighth century B.C.E. - of what the prophetic process and prophetic communication involve.

We will meet at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, NY. At noon lunch will be available for IAT members at a charge of $10.00 and non-members $13.00. Reservations for lunch are necessary by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mail iat@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

Family Weekend 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012 – Sunday, October 14, 2012

Bard College CampusEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, the Ask the President forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Click here to register and view the 2012 program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.bard.edu/familyweekend.

Health Professions 101

Friday, October 12, 20127 pm

RKC 102

Professor Ferguson will introduce the pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions, including allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, optometry, etc. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience. If you are interested in a health profession, but have not attended a similiar previous discussion, you should attend this one.

American Symphony OrchestraConcert One

Friday, October 12, 20128 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. The ASO is the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series as well as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.

Family Weekend 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012 – Sunday, October 14, 2012

Bard College CampusEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, the Ask the President forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Click here to register and view the 2012 program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.bard.edu/familyweekend.

The Panel will feature green transportation experts and take place following the expo. Each panelist will do a short 3-5 minute introduction and provide initial thoughts on the topic overall. Bard CEP graduate students will then focus the conversation through questions, where each panelist will get to answer questions relevant to their expertise. We will then take questions from the audience. Registration is closed.

Yasuko Yokoshi

Performance and Discussion

Saturday, October 13, 20125 pm

Fisher Center, Felicitas S. Thorne Dance StudioFree and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reservations may be made through the Box Office.

Yasuko Yokoshi, New York Live Arts’ inaugural resident commissioned artist, will give a rare performance of solo material from Kyoganoko Musume-Dojoji. This repertory, first performed in 17th century Japan, is reputed to be the most important and difficult dance work in the Kabuki theater repertoire and is an inspiration point for her new work, BELL. Ms. Yokoshi will also present an in-progress trio from BELL, which will have its world premiere at New York Live Arts in March 2013. A moderated discussion with Yokoshi and her dancers will follow the performance.

Yasuko Yokoshi was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, and currently lives and works in New York City. Yokoshi's work has been presented by the Theatre de la Ville in Paris, the Dublin Dance Festival, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in Boston, among other venues. In July 2011, Yokoshi was appointed as the inaugural resident commissioned artist of New York Live Arts. Recent awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (2008). She is the recipient of a Creative Capital grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship, and two New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards for her choreography of Shuffle (2003) and what we when we (2006). She is an associate curator at The Kitchen.

Yasuko Yokoshi’s performance occurs as part of the partnership between Bard College and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Sponsored by: Dance Program.

American Symphony OrchestraConcert One

Saturday, October 13, 20128 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. The ASO is the resident orchestra of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it appears in a winter subscription series as well as Bard’s annual SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists include Peter Blaga, tuba; David Nagy, bassoon; and Renata Rakova, clarinet—winners of the 2011 Bard College Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, October 14, 201212–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Evensong Service

Sunday, October 14, 20127–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

Family Weekend 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012 – Sunday, October 14, 2012

Bard College CampusEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, the Ask the President forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Click here to register and view the 2012 program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.bard.edu/familyweekend.

Kassandra

Sunday, October 14, 20127 pm

A new twist on the well-known story of the Trojan War as told by the prophet Kassandra, who is blessed and cursed with the ability to see what others can't. Adapted from the novel by Christa Wolf and directed by Artist-in-Residence Jean Wagner.*Bard student production.Sponsored by: Bard Theater Program.

Speakers Series : An Artist's Talk by Sarah Pierce

Monday, October 15, 20123–4 pm

CCS GalleriesAn artist’s talk with Sarah Pierce.

Sarah Pierce lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Since 2003, she has used the term The Metropolitan Complex to describe her project. Despite its institutional resonance, this title does not signify an organization. Instead, it demonstrates Pierce’s broad understanding of cultural work, articulated through working methods that often open up to the personal and the incidental. Characterized as a way to play with a shared neuroses of place (read ‘complex’ in the Freudian sense), whether a specific locality or a wider set of circumstances that frame interaction, her activity considers forms of gathering, both historical examples and those she initiates. The processes of research and presentation that Pierce undertakes highlight a continual renegotiation of the terms for making art: the potential for dissent and self-determination, the slippages between individual work and institution, and the proximity of past artworks. Recent exhibitions include: The Artist Talks at The Showroom, London (solo); After the future, EVA international biennial of art, Limerick; A Terrible Beauty is Born, 11th Biennale de Lyon; Our Day Will Come, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart; Push and Pull, Tate Modern, London and Mumok, Vienna; Research Program, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Appeal for Alternatives, Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen K21+K20, Düsseldorf; and We are Grammar, Pratt, Manhattan. She regularly publishes The Metropolitan Complex Papers, and collaborates on The Paraeducation Department with Annie Fletcher.

About The Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Lunchtime talk with Phillippe Nonet

Tuesday, October 16, 201212:30 pm

Remembering Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring" Lecture by Stephen Walsh

Cardiff University Music School

Tuesday, October 16, 20125 pm

Olin Humanities Building - Room 104Stephen Walsh, a leading authority on the life and works of Igor Stravinsky, will present a lecture on The Rite of Spring. His books include Stravinsky: A Creative Spring; Stravinsky: The Second Exile; The Music of Stravinsky; Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; The Lieder of Schumann; and Bartók Chamber Music. Sponsored by: Music Program.

Experimental Philosophy: A Multimedia Introduction

Tuesday, October 16, 20125 pm

Ottaway Theater

A multimedia introduction to Experimental Philosophy: Joshua Knobe (Yale University) presents three videos about his work created in collaboration with Ben Coonley (Bard College)

Experimental philosophy is a new field that lies at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. Experimental philosophers aim to make progress on some of the most traditional questions of philosophy, but they do so by going out and running systematic experiments of the sort one more typically finds in psychology departments. The aim of experimental philosophy is to try to get to the root of certain philosophical problems by gaining a better understanding of the psychological processes that make people think about these problems in the way they do. Thus, experimental philosophers try to (a) conduct experimental studies that help them understand people’s ordinary thought patterns and then (b) use the results from these studies as parts of larger philosophical arguments.

Joshua Knobe is an associate professor at Yale University, appointed both in the program in cognitive science and the department of philosophy. He has published numerous articles both in psychology journals (Psychological Science, Cognition, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) and in philosophy journals (Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Analysis). Most of his research is in the new field of ‘experimental philosophy,’ which uses experimental methods to examine people’s intuition about philosophical questions. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the BBC, and Scientific American.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program; Mind, Brain, and Behavior Concentration; Philosophy Program; Psychology Program.

Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik

Wednesday, October 17, 20121:30 pm

Avery Art Center, Center for Film, Electronic Arts and Music"Tahimik made a triumphant entrance onto the world cinema stage in thelate 70s/early 80s with the appearance of his feature films PERFUMEDNIGHTMARE and TURUMBA, which remain two of the most uncategorizable,formally audacious, profoundly entertaining, deeply whimsical, yet politically incisive films in post-colonial cinema. Since then, Tahimik’s work has had very little exposure in North America, even as he has been busier than ever, focusing his boundless energy on a series of adventures, projects, and films ranging from the epic to the compact to the fragmentary.

Kidlat who involves himself in every single step of filmmaking, from script-writing through shooting, editing, acting, and producing to directing. By doing this, he has made a great contribution to global filmmaking culture, and has won international acclaim for his unique style of presenting a distinctively Filipino combination of third-world self-consciousness and pride, wrapping this up in his own individual sense of humour."Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program.

Faculty Seminars

Fall 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 20127 pm

Olin, Room 102

Barbara Luka

Paradigm shift in linguistic analysis:

Language learning in monolingual adults

When does a person stop learning her native language? Previous linguistic theories have proposed that speakers develop competence in their native language by early childhood, after which learning rates decline. Nonetheless, recent psycholinguistic research shows that adults are continually learning not only new vocabulary but also new grammatical patterns, adding and modifying their grammatical repertoire in their native language throughout their lifetimes. This is surprising because it means that language learning in monolingual adults occurs in the absence of volition, conscious attention, or even awareness on the part of the speakers. These findings, combined with research from cases of neurological damage, lead to the proposal that language learning depends upon a variety of specialized brain areas. My talk will highlight how findings from neuroscience are forcing a deep revision of our assumptions about the nature of linguistic cognition and how people of all ages acquire language.

This seminar will be held in Olin 102 beginning at 7:00 p.m. Please join us for a reception in the Olin atrium at 6:30 p.m.

Methods and Models: Experimental Education

Thursday, October 18, 201211 am – 5 pm

Hessel Museum of Art

Bard College is home to a variety of academic models that implicitly question the boundaries and purposes of liberal arts education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Many of its programs take an active role in redefining their object of study. But these programs, including Human Rights, Literature and the new Experimental Humanities concentration, rarely engage in public conversation about their methodologies, and though they often work across disciplines, their shared stakes and interests are not always visible on campus. Curatorial Studies is an especially interesting case in this sense: it is an increasingly common graduate degree, setting itself apart from both art history and studio practices, yet it is also one of the newest additions to the humanities, and its disciplinary parameters are still in flux. CCS Bard hopes to engage students in an investigation of the various ways of teaching and learning, including relationships between education, experimentation, progress, and responsibility to both the traditions of our fields of study and the needs of current students. This broad conversation invites faculty and program directors at Bard who have initiated or supported new academic models to speak in depth, and in active conversation with students, about their pedagogical positions.

The Coloring Graph and Variations

Thursday, October 18, 20124:40 pm

A proper coloring is an assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph G so that neighboring vertices have different colors. Graph coloring has been a motivating topic for much of graph theory.

Suppose we change the color of just one vertex in a graph coloring. Can we get from one coloring to another by a sequence of vertex changes so that each step along the way is a proper coloring? The answer is of course yes, if we are allowed an unlimited number of colors. What is the fewest colors we can have for this to work?

We introduce a new graph called the coloring graph to analyze this situation. The coloring graph, and similar constructions, can be used to solve problems ranging from counting the possible number of graph colorings to modeling spin conﬁgurations in atoms.

Prophecy: The Written Testimony

Friday, October 19, 201212:30–1:30 pm

St. John the EvangelistThe Institute of Advanced Theology (IAT) will be sponsoring its Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "Prophecy: the written testimony" beginning on Friday October 5 and will continue on each Friday in October and November 2nd.

Prophets claim to link the world of human beings with divine reality. Their methods have included recourse topoetry, vision, music, and ritual. Prophecy ahs typically been seen as an undocumented activity, either too remote in time or too marginal to be fully recorded. Yet the Hebrew Bible provides direct evidence - reaching back to the eighth century B.C.E. - of what the prophetic process and prophetic communication involve.

We will meet at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, NY. At noon lunch will be available for IAT members at a charge of $10.00 and non-members $13.00. Reservations for lunch are necessary by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mail iat@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, October 21, 201212–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Evensong Service

Sunday, October 21, 20127–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

Lunchtime Talk with Maribel Morey

"Defining American Democracy Differently: A Reading of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) and Hannah Arendt's 'Reflections on Little Rock' (1959)."

Monday, October 22, 201212:30 pm

Arendt CenterIn An American Dilemma (1944), the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal argued in favor of black Americans’ assimilation and integration into dominant white American society and further explained that nation-wide policies supporting integration and assimilation would prove Americans’ democratic nature. Soon after its publication, this two-volume study became central to national race discussions. Most famously, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) cited Myrdal’s work in order to justify its holding that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional.4 It was the Brown decision and the subsequent school integration movement that the German-American political theorist, Hannah Arendt, criticized in “Reflections on Little Rock”; an article published by Dissent magazine in 1959.Here, she offered a list of arguments explaining why the federal government’s efforts to integrate segregated schools in the Southern U.S. were unjustified. Directly criticizing a federal program that was close to the hearts and minds of many Americans (including Dissent readers), Arendt’s essay found few fans.

Taking a step back from mid-twentieth century receptions of An American Dilemma and “Reflections on Little Rock,” this talk will help clarify why these two European scholars arrived at such distinct views on American race relations. Specifically, I argue that Myrdal’s and Arendt’s different visions of American democracy led them to their opposing perspectives on American race relations. In 1942, Myrdal was particularly intent on illustrating that the American democratic state and its people—unlike Nazi Germany and its citizens—followed modern social scientific knowledge on social group differences and thus promoted subordinate groups’ assimilation and integration into the dominant majority folk. In 1959, Arendt was adamant that American democracy should prove itself distinct from totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and a communist Soviet Union by maintaining a strong separation between the private, public, and social realms and between adults and children. Reading An American Dilemma and “Reflections on Little Rock” through this lens, we begin to appreciate the significance of democratic theory in determining—not only Myrdal’s and Arendt’s, but also our own—definitions of racial equality in the United States.

Interferences

Monday, October 22, 2012 – Wednesday, October 24, 20121–7 pm

CCS Bard Student LoungeThe TV box set has modified and interfered in activities and habits of individuals, families and societies since its intrusion in our life, in the late 1920s. By activating the TV box set located in the CCS Bard Student Lounge, Interferences tests the ability of this medium to subvert the passive television viewer model and activate an unconscious teaching and learning method.

Media artworks from invited artists are shown on a loop, one at a time, for three consecutive days, from Monday to Wednesday, in the CCS Bard Student Lounge. The disruptive character of a TV box set in the student lounge is a strategy for Interferences to link artworks directly with the educative character of CCS Bard. Proposing an indirect but also quite persuasive way to interact with media artworks, Interferences questions what it means for an artwork to be perceived in this liminal space: a meeting point, a passage, and a studying area.

Shirin Sabahi's works range from video and slide projection installations to collages and artist books. In her artistic practice, she addresses interpretations and identifications encouraged by language and image in relation to different temporalities, employing translation and transformation and playing with formats and rituals of fabricating and perceiving art and in a broader sense meaning.

Born in 1984 Tehran, Sabahi lives and works in Copenhagen. She is a 2012-2013 film and new media fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Her work has been exhibited at 58th Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Aarhus Kunstbygning; Konsthall C, Stockholm and 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre among others.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Trajal Harrell: Conspiracy of Performance, Followed by a Speakers Series Talk

Monday, October 22, 20122:30–5 pm

CCS Bard

The Conspiracy of Performance is a twenty-five minute lecture given by performers Trajal Harrell and Perle Palombe, though it is uncertain if we should call this lecture a “lecture-performance.” Spoken alternately, in French and English, what is most certain about this lecture is that Harrell and Palombe aim definitive remarks at the current state of contemporary performance. While their own complicity remains controversially at stake, The Conspiracy of Performance shares no reluctance in meeting this historical moment where performance momentarily shines one of the brightest lights in the world of art. The text is an appropriation and re-writing of Jean Baudrillard’s notorious 1996 text, Le complot de l’art.

Created and Performed by: Trajal Harrell and Perle Palombe

Production: Skite 2010 special thanks to Jean-Marc Adolphe

The Conspiracy of Performance is being performed as part of the exhibition Anti-Establishment, which is currently on view at CCS Bard.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria

Monday, October 22, 20127–9 pm

PrestonA new documentary film examining the Jewish traditions and beliefs of the Igbo people of Nigeria, followed by Q&A with film-maker Jeff Lieberman and members of Bard's faculty and staff. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies, Religion, Difference & Media, Jewish Students' Organization, Black Students' Organization, and Afro-pulse.Sponsored by: Africana Studies, Religion, Difference & Media.

3+2 Program - Live Webinar

Monday, October 22, 20127 pm

Online

Have you ever thought about a 3+2 masters degree program in sustainability? The Bard Center for Environmental Policy offers a unique "Junior Year at Bard" program that allows students from colleges across the country to earn a Masters degree in Environmental Policy, or Climate Science and Policy, with just one additional year of education, including an extended high-level, professional internship. Students come to Bard during their junior year to take the first year of Masters coursework, then return to their home institutions to complete their senior undergraduate year. If you would like to learn more, please join us Monday, October 22nd, for the webinar information session described in the file below. RSVP to cep@bard.edu or 845-758-7071.

Films shown Wednesdays in Olin LC, 115:

October 31 | November 7, 14

Interferences

Monday, October 22, 2012 – Wednesday, October 24, 20121–7 pm

CCS Bard Student LoungeThe TV box set has modified and interfered in activities and habits of individuals, families and societies since its intrusion in our life, in the late 1920s. By activating the TV box set located in the CCS Bard Student Lounge, Interferences tests the ability of this medium to subvert the passive television viewer model and activate an unconscious teaching and learning method.

Media artworks from invited artists are shown on a loop, one at a time, for three consecutive days, from Monday to Wednesday, in the CCS Bard Student Lounge. The disruptive character of a TV box set in the student lounge is a strategy for Interferences to link artworks directly with the educative character of CCS Bard. Proposing an indirect but also quite persuasive way to interact with media artworks, Interferences questions what it means for an artwork to be perceived in this liminal space: a meeting point, a passage, and a studying area.

Shirin Sabahi's works range from video and slide projection installations to collages and artist books. In her artistic practice, she addresses interpretations and identifications encouraged by language and image in relation to different temporalities, employing translation and transformation and playing with formats and rituals of fabricating and perceiving art and in a broader sense meaning.

Born in 1984 Tehran, Sabahi lives and works in Copenhagen. She is a 2012-2013 film and new media fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Her work has been exhibited at 58th Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Aarhus Kunstbygning; Konsthall C, Stockholm and 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre among others.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Tuesday, October 23, 201212 pm

I, Robot-icist

Tuesday, October 23, 20125 pm

RKC 100

A lecture byBen AxelrodiRobot Corporation

What is a roboticist? What does a roboticist do? In this presentation, Ben Axelrod, a research scientist at iRobot Corp, will chronicle some of his robotics projects. These projects include a wide variety of robots, everything from small LEGO robots to 300 pound rescue robots, from manipulators to walking robots. Recent projects at iRobot Research will also be showcased. Fun robot videos included, of course.

Ben Axelrod holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University and a MS degree in Computer Science with a specialization in robotics and intelligent systems from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a Research Scientist for iRobot Corporation. A position he has held for two years. Before coming to iRobot, Ben has worked for CoroWare Inc., Microsoft, and Iguana Robotics. Ben has been working, playing, and learning about robotics for over 12 years.

About iRobot Corp: iRobot designs and builds robots that make a difference. The company’s home robots help people find smarter ways to clean, and its defense & security robots protect those in harm’s way. iRobot’s consumer and military robots feature iRobot Aware® robot intelligence systems, proprietary technology incorporating advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence. For more information about iRobot, please visit www.irobot.com.Sponsored by: Computer Science Program.

Michel Agier: From Refuge the Ghetto is Born

Tuesday, October 23, 20127–8:30 pm

Olin, Room 102Michel Agier is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for African Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has written extensively on the conditions and sites of exile, including the books Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government (Polity Press, 2011) and Onthe Margins of the World: The Refugee Experience Today (Polity Press, 2008).

Reviewed in the January 2012 issue of Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Stephanie Nawyn wri

tes:

"Michel Agier’s Managing the Undesirables is one of several texts that addresses the complex and proliferating humanitarian infrastructure that is increasingly prevalent in regions of the world besieged by violence and displacement, but his work stands out as particularly important and innovative. Agier addresses some of the central questions facing our world today: belonging, personhood, and the ability of those most cut off from political power to speak forthemselves and shape their own lives, and he does so in a way that combines passion and keen observation. In doing so, his work should be of interest to a broad range of sociologists who study social inequality and the structures (even those built from the best of intentions) that perpetuate it."

New Orleans Project Film Screening

Tuesday, October 23, 20127:30–9:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe Bard New Orleans Project will be hosting the 2nd part of Spike Lee's award-winning documentary "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at 7:30 in Weis.

Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this film brings attention to the issues of race, class, and inequality within the city and its institutions. All are encouraged to attend!Sponsored by: New Orleans Initiative.

Interferences

Monday, October 22, 2012 – Wednesday, October 24, 20121–7 pm

CCS Bard Student LoungeThe TV box set has modified and interfered in activities and habits of individuals, families and societies since its intrusion in our life, in the late 1920s. By activating the TV box set located in the CCS Bard Student Lounge, Interferences tests the ability of this medium to subvert the passive television viewer model and activate an unconscious teaching and learning method.

Media artworks from invited artists are shown on a loop, one at a time, for three consecutive days, from Monday to Wednesday, in the CCS Bard Student Lounge. The disruptive character of a TV box set in the student lounge is a strategy for Interferences to link artworks directly with the educative character of CCS Bard. Proposing an indirect but also quite persuasive way to interact with media artworks, Interferences questions what it means for an artwork to be perceived in this liminal space: a meeting point, a passage, and a studying area.

Shirin Sabahi's works range from video and slide projection installations to collages and artist books. In her artistic practice, she addresses interpretations and identifications encouraged by language and image in relation to different temporalities, employing translation and transformation and playing with formats and rituals of fabricating and perceiving art and in a broader sense meaning.

Born in 1984 Tehran, Sabahi lives and works in Copenhagen. She is a 2012-2013 film and new media fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Her work has been exhibited at 58th Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Aarhus Kunstbygning; Konsthall C, Stockholm and 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre among others.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Strings Attached / Music Featuring the Guitar

Wednesday, October 24, 20124 pm

Old GymThis concert features three extraordinary guitarist specializing in classical, jazz, Brazilian, contemporary and blues guitar playing. There will be a short talk among the artist about the history of the instrument and films of notable guitarist past and present.

At 8:00, JAMES EMERY composer and guitarist from the STRING TRIO of NEW YORK will be featured with TIME FACTOR band, featuring Rob Schwimmer on keyboards, Jerome Harris on bass and Thurman Barker on drums and percussion.

Guitar Summit, Featuring Thurman Barker's Quartet Time Factor

With James Emery on guitar

Wednesday, October 24, 20128 pm

Old GymJAMES EMERY composer and guitarist from the STRING TRIO of NEW YORK will be featured with TIME FACTOR band, featuring Rob Schwimmer on keyboards, Jerome Harris on bass and Thurman Barker on drums and percussion. Music starts at 4:00 for the Guitar Summit also featuring films of guitarist of all styles. Blues, jazz and pop, Brazilian, classical.

Jack Hamilton

Candidate for the Visiting Position in Literature

Thursday, October 25, 201212:30 pm

This talk focuses on connections between Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, most centrally evidenced by Cooke’s landmark composition “A Change Is Gonna Come,” inspired by a twenty-one-year-old Dylan’s “Blowin’ in The Wind.” In the decades since this musical encounter Cooke and Dylan have been positioned by historians, critics, and audiences as foundational figures in the genres of soul and rock music, respectively. By analyzing moments of overlap in the work of these artists alongside the ways they have been discussed in venues ranging from little magazines of the folk revival to academic studies, this talk explores the role of racial ideology and racial imagination in the formation of genre while highlighting the interracial aesthetics of two of the decade’s most influential musicians.

Philosophy Colloquium

Thursday, October 25, 20124:45 pm

Hegeman 102

Michael Kessler Lecturer in PhilosophyUniversity of Pittsburgh

will give a talk

"A puzzle about the law of obscenity"
The law of obscenity relies on the premise that some forms of expression involve a wrong that goes beyond mere offensiveness. Such speech is considered "low value" and on a par with other forms of unprotected speech, like fraud and defamation. However, on closer inspection the badness of obscenity cannot easily be explained in terms of the harms that arise from instances of fraud or defamation. I argue that the usual justifications for the law of obscenity lack adequate philosophical foundations, and suggest a different way of dealing with the concept of obscenity.

Thursday, October 25, 20127 pm

Presents a Panel Discussionwith

Lytle is the author of America's Uncivil Wars: the Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon and The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. His current work is a book on consumerism and the environmental crisis since World War II.

Cronin has worked as an advocate, legislative and congressional aide, commercial fisherman, professor, author and filmmaker. He served as Hudson Riverkeeper from 1983-2000, a position that has inspired a legacy of 200 Waterkeeper programs that fight pollution on six continents. Cronin co-authored The Riverkeepers, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., published by Scribner with an introduction by former Vice President Al Gore. He has written numerous articles, including for the Op Ed page of The New York Times. He wrote and co-produced the film The Last Rivermen, named an outstanding documentary by the Motion Picture Academy Foundation.

Segarra has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and edited and contributed to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America. She has a forthcoming chapter on human rights and the environment in Latin America in Human Rights: Challenges of the Past/Challenges for the Future. In addition to research and teaching, she has worked with a range of international development and research institutions including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council.

Prophecy: The Written Testimony

Friday, October 26, 201212:30–1:30 pm

St. John the EvangelistThe Institute of Advanced Theology (IAT) will be sponsoring its Fall Advent Luncheon Lecture Series, "Prophecy: the written testimony" beginning on Friday October 5 and will continue on each Friday in October and November 2nd.

Prophets claim to link the world of human beings with divine reality. Their methods have included recourse topoetry, vision, music, and ritual. Prophecy ahs typically been seen as an undocumented activity, either too remote in time or too marginal to be fully recorded. Yet the Hebrew Bible provides direct evidence - reaching back to the eighth century B.C.E. - of what the prophetic process and prophetic communication involve.

We will meet at St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, NY. At noon lunch will be available for IAT members at a charge of $10.00 and non-members $13.00. Reservations for lunch are necessary by calling 845-758-7279 or e-mail iat@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

Moderation Dance Concert

Friday, October 26, 2012 – Sunday, October 28, 2012

Performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.

Moderation Dance Concert

Friday, October 26, 2012 – Sunday, October 28, 2012

Performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.

Women's Volleyball Matches

Saturday, October 27, 20121 pm

Stevenson Athletic CenterIt's Senior Day, and the final match of the season for the Raptors, who host Rutgers-Newark at 1 p.m. and SUNY Old Westbury at 5 p.m.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Men's Soccer Match

Saturday, October 27, 20122 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexIt's the final match of the season for the Raptors, which means it's Senior Day. Bard hosts Liberty League rival Vassar.Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.

Women's Soccer Match

Saturday, October 27, 20124 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexIt's the final home match of the season as the Raptors take on Utica College. It's Senior Day.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.

Sacred Harp Singing

Sunday, October 28, 201212–2:30 pm

Bard Hall, Bard College CampusShapenote music is a fiery form of four-part harmony a-cappella singing. Originating in 18th century New England and continuing right up to the present day in the rural South, shapenote singing is a living breathing tradition of American folk hymnody.

We sing out of a tune book called The Sacred Harp, one of the last books of this tradition still in common use.

We are a community of singing open to all! You don't need to know how to sing or read music to come. No prior experience is necessary: all will be taught. You just need to be ready to make some noise.

There is a weekly beginner's tutorial from Noon to 12.30 followed by a two-hour singing. Songbooks are provided.

Evensong Service

Sunday, October 28, 20127–7:45 pm

Chapel of the Holy InnocentsEvensong: Ancient Ritual Blessing of Light (lucinarium) from the second century a.d. Join us for music, a multitude of candles---a celebration of light.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

Moderation Dance Concert

Friday, October 26, 2012 – Sunday, October 28, 2012

Performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to use the language of dance, applying what they have learned during their first years in the Bard Dance Program. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.Sponsored by: Bard Dance Program.

Conservatory Sundays - Music Alive!

Sunday, October 28, 20123 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterArtistic directors Joan Tower and Blair McMillen present new music performed by Conservatory musicians. The concert will include works by Tsontakis, Halle, Bernstein, Weill, Kukal and Sanchez.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Monday, October 29, 20123–5 pm

CCS Bard, Seminar Room 1In this talk Montserrat Albores will do a chronological revision of some projects that constitute her curatorial practice. The talk will take as a starting point her thesis exhibition at the CCS and unravel to resent projects, in order to present each project in relation to others.

About the Speakers Series: Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College hosts a regular program of lectures by the foremost artists, curators, art historians, and critics of our day, situating the school and museum's concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. Work in Progress sessions of the Speakers Series highlight projects currently being developed by members of the CCS Bard faculty, offering a unique opportunity for engagement with ideas, methodologies, and pragmatics still in the process of testing and refinement.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Lucia Allais: Designs of Destruction CANCELED

UNESCO and the origins of world heritage

Tuesday, October 30, 20127–9 pm

Olin, Room 102

Due to huricane Sandy, this lecture has been cancelled.

What does the protection of monuments have to do with the protection of human lives? Today human rights and cultural objects are treated as separate concerns by international organizations, but in the 1930s a broad movement of intellectuals, architects and lawyers worked to combine them into a new regulatory system, which they called “the humanization of war.” This talk will address the work they did for UNESCO’s precursor, the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), in order to examine how monuments rose to the top of the international cultural agenda, where they still remain today.

Lucia Allais is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University; she specializes in the intellectual and political history of architecture since 1900 with particular focus on international networks and global institutions. She received her Ph.D from MIT, her M.Arch from Harvard, and her B.S.E from Princeton, and has worked in design firms in Europe and America. Her recent writings address the aesthetics of post-conflict reconstruction ("International Style Heritage," Volume 20, 2009); transnational mobility in postwar architecture (“Global Agoraphobia,” Global Design History, 2011); the movement of monuments in 1960s Egypt (“The Design of the Nubian Desert,” Governing By Design, 2012); and Superstudio’s 1972 project “Salvages of Italian City Centers” (“Disaster as Experiment,” Log 22, 2011). She is at work on a book, Designs of Destruction, on the rise of a new political aesthetics in mid-20th-century international agencies that were charged with protecting monuments worldwide from the combined destructive effects of war, modernism and modernization.

Special 35mm French Film Screening

Tuesday, October 30, 20127 pm

Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts(weather permitting)

Please join us for 35mm screenings of these key works of French Poetic Realism. The rare, imported prints are being shown being shown as part of the course Film Among the Arts (ARTH/FILM 230) and the series Reinventing Realism: The Films of Jean Grémillon.